What the final rule does
ATF amended the regulatory definitions of machinegun to remove two sentences that had incorporated bump stocks. The agency states that the change responds directly to the Supreme Court’s decision in Garland v. Cargill.
Operational takeaway
This is a final rule, not a proposal. Remove obsolete regulatory-language excerpts from internal materials. Do not overread the action as an across-the-board classification rule for every accessory; analyze the actual device and current controlling authority.
Primary source: ATF — Revising Machine Gun Definition in Response to Supreme Court Decision (1140-AA60) ↗
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